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Racial Injustice: Teaching Resources

Catlin Tucker

Teachers have a unique opportunity to engage students in exploring the complex issue of racial injustice. Students need a space to explore their feelings and reflect on what is happening, why it is happening, and what they can do to create positive change. Educators may be looking for resources they can lean on as they navigate these complex issues with their students who understandably have a variety of feelings about what is taking place in our country.

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Best practices for supporting parents with remote learning

Neo LMS

With schools under lockdown, parents have taken on the role of teachers, in addition to being caregivers and workers. In these uncertain times, it’s hard to say when things will go back to “normal”. This situation has elicited all kinds of responses from parents. Many have praised teachers for their dedication while others feel ambivalent about remote learning.

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8 New Productivity Tools & Tips for Working from Home

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Working at home changes us. It has undoubtedly changed me as has the time away from the physical presence of my students and colleagues. Despite that some teachers and administrators say they are working less – I’m working much more. So, my method of working has had to change, as well.

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Racial Injustice: Teaching Complex Issues

Catlin Tucker

Teachers have a unique opportunity to engage students in exploring the complex issue of racial injustice. Students need a space to explore their feelings and reflect on what is happening, why it is happening, and what they can do to create positive change. Educators may be looking for resources they can lean on as they navigate these complex issues with their students who understandably have a variety of feelings about what is taking place in our country.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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How to Make the Case for Cybersecurity

EdTech Magazine

The education sector still lags behind other industries when it comes to cybersecurity. A 2018 SecurityScorecard report found that education ranked last out of 17 industries in the country in terms of overall cybersecurity posture. It also found that education ranked poorly in three key areas: application security, patching cadence and network security.

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Special Ed Students Have Lost Many Services. Here’s How SEL Strategies Can Help.

Edsurge

This is the first of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. All teachers and students are currently experiencing challenges with accessibility, the promotion of emotional and physical wellness, and academic progress—issues that the special education commu

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Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning

The Hechinger Report

After schools switched from physical instruction to remote learning in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, districts and state leaders assured families they would get devices for students and the technology resources needed to do schoolwork at home. But more than two months after the switch to distance learning, many students still don’t have what they need.

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How K–12 Schools Can Measure Ed Tech ROI

EdTech Magazine

The COVID-inspired rush to distance learning is putting pressure on already-strained IT budgets in school districts nationwide as educators strive to provide students with needed devices and online tools. That comes on top of the $13 billion districts already spend on ed tech tools each year. Over the past five years, K–12 technology spending grew more than 8.6 percent a year, Technavio reports.

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Here’s the biggest mistake educators are making with remote learning

eSchool News

Education thought leader Alan November isn’t shy about discussing what he believes is a key misstep that many educators are making in shifting to web-based instruction during the pandemic. Instead of taking the same techniques that teachers have used in their classrooms for years and trying to apply them within a remote learning environment—an experience he compares to forcing a square peg into a round hole—November believes teachers and administrators should view the pandemic as an opportunity

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Educational Resources to Teach Students about Racism

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The horrific video of the Minneapolis police officer killing George Floyd in a cold-blooded way has shocked the whole world. People marched in protests in several cities around the globe to denounce.read more.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The art and importance of device and area sterilization in the wake of COVID-19

Jamf on EdTech

Members of Brewster Academy and Geisinger share steps they leverage to minimize the spread of infectious diseases by sterilizing shipping centers, help desk areas and Apple devices.

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Finishing the School Year as Nationwide Protests Compound a Pandemic

Edsurge

At UCLA, classes are still in session—remotely, due to the pandemic—even while National Guard troops patrol near the campus to stop any violence that might arise from protests over the killing of George Floyd. Many schools and colleges had already completed their terms before a white police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on the neck of Floyd, a black man he was restraining, for eight minutes until Floyd died.

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6 Self-Care Strategies for School Leaders

EdTechTeam

You’re taking care of the teachers. The teachers are taking care of the students. But who’s taking care of you? As the educational leader of your school or your classroom, not only are you taking care of and dealing with the stress and PTSD of your teachers and/or students, but you are also dealing with your life’s day to day stresses. Principals and Assistant Principals, how many times are you greeted with 25 different fires that need to be put out…NOW!

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Here Is A Great Text to Speech Chrome Extensions for Students with Vision Difficulties

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Read Aloud is a very good Chrome extension that reads web pages out loud to you. We have tested it in several pages and has always been accurate. This extension is especially helpful for people with.read more.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Tips for Working, and Learning at Home During COVID-19

Marketplace K-12

Many education company leaders are working from home during COVID-19. It takes discipline, and flexibility, to get it right, explains Sara Potler LaHayne. The post Tips for Working, and Learning at Home During COVID-19 appeared first on Market Brief.

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Delivering Actionable Feedback to Students

MiddleWeb

Discover how to create actionable feedback for your students and teach them true self-assessment as you transform your role from evaluator to coach. Teacher leader Laura Von Staden "definitely" recommends this step-by-step guide to shifting from a focus on scores and grades to a focus on learning and mastery.

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Another week.

SpeechTechie

One of my students in a group session this week shared as his "low" that he is upset by all that is going on with racism and injustice in America and that "it's another layer on top of the layers the country has been dealing with." A wise way to put it. I'm working on what I can do in my own community, but I wanted to work to elevate black voices in my sessions this week, in ways that might help my students process current events and also be goal-oriented.

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Rough Draft Math: Revising to Learn

MiddleWeb

Self-confidence is hugely important in learning math. Amanda Jansen shows how teachers can help students embrace a “revising to learn” approach, gaining confidence and understanding. Teacher Michael Hernandez says the book will help him create a safe space to make mistakes and grow.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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6 steps to help children find purpose and resilience from home

eSchool News

Some days are great. Others are hard. More than two months into stay-at-home orders, parents and kids are getting used to the concept of learning from home via video chats and Google Classroom homework assignments. But there is definitely a void, and the thought of having our children at home over the summer creates anxiety all around. Our ancient brains crave dopamine , and short-term activities and experiences like video games and social media provide it.

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Tech & Learning District Leadership Lunch ‘n Learn: Cybersecurity Planning for Next Year

techlearning

Cybersecurity planning for the school year ahead was the subject discussed by leaders from Santa Fe Public Schools and Loudon Schools

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Newport News Public Schools

N2Y

Newport News Public Schools (NNPS), a Virginia school district of 29,000 students, sought a program that would provide high?quality, age?respectful instruction for students with unique learning needs. At the time, the district lacked special education instructional resources and teachers often resorted to children’s TV programming and other materials that weren’t age?

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What’s New ~ June 2020

myViewBoard

We’re committed to making myViewBoard easy to use, so we’ve made a few enhancements to your favorite features this June. Hide the Camera Toolbar. With a lot of users recently using the document camera as a face cam to do distance learning , we added an option to hide the bottom toolbar. By default, the toolbar is still there when you add a camera to the canvas, but now you can hide the toolbar by clicking the icon on the upper right inside the camera window.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Using Task Analysis to Teach Daily Living Skills

N2Y

Task analysis (TA) is a practice often used in the classroom to teach multi-step skills or behaviors related to academics, communication and social skills. It can also be effective for teaching daily living skills. As the school year winds down, now is a good time to focus on them. Your students can end the school year having gained new skills that they can use throughout the summer in their homes.

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Mini-Conference for Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries - Wednesday, June 17th #library20

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). We currently have 3200 people registered for this event. Please join them and us! This mini-conference will focus on innovation and innovative thinking in rural, independent, tribal, and other small libraries--as well as the many unique challenges that they face.

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How NYC Students and Teachers are Making Sense of George Floyd?s Killing

MindShift

Here’s how NYC students and teachers are making sense of George Floyd’s killing was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here. Jun 2, 8:03pm EDT. Remote learning has been tough on 16-year-old Tai Muñoz. The freshman at Brooklyn’s Sunset Park High School, who strongly prefers hands-on instruction and is struggling with depression, has been mostly out of contact with school staff.

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New York is closing a charter school to ‘save’ money. But at what cost to students?

ExcelinEd

Last month, the New York State Board of Regents voted to not renew their contract with Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School (BuffSci). The Regents’ own staff recommended a five-year renewal for the charter school and an expansion of 144 students over the next two years. But the Regents disregarded their staff. One regent is quoted as saying , “it would be irresponsible of us to approve and obligate these districts … to spend this kind of money that’s needed to support the charter schools as

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Reinventing.School Interview with Yong Zhao and Susan Engel + Thursday, June 4 Sessions - The Learning Revolution Online Daily Education Conference #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to the Thursday, June 4th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. The day's sessions are below. To see all sessions submitted so far, and to correspond with presenters, click here. Recordings of past sessions are listed on the Recordings page. The conference hashtag is #learningrevolution. TODAY'S SESSIONS : All times are US-Eastern Daylight Time - to see them in your own time zone and to get the links for attending live, click HERE. 8:00 AM - Learning how to Lea

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A message of hope + call to action for justice

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I have so much on my heart right now that I have to share. Because even in the middle of civil unrest and turmoil and pain and loss and destruction, I see so much beauty and hope. And, I see an incredible opportunity for educators to create positive change. . Let me explain. What’s happening right now in our country is an UPRISING in every sense of the word.